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| Identity with one’s local community (polis) |
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| identity with Greece as a whole |
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| (499-478 BC) The Hellenic League (Sparta was hegemon), the city states of Greece banded together to resist the threat of conquest by Xerxes I, King of Persia. |
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Persian expedition
(Sea Defeat) |
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Persian Expedition
(land defeat) |
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| 478 BC Athens as hegemon, but still member of Sparta’s Hellenic League. Overlapping jurisdictions inevitably led to tension. Delian League was a joint voluntary military alliance in which each state contributed military contributions (phoros) according to its means. |
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| Pericles announced that the Delian League must continue, as well as its phoros (cash contributions) despite cessation of hostilities with Persia. At this point the Delian League became an Athenian Empire. |
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| (431-404 BC) Sparta and its allies called on the subject states of Athens to rise up and join the liberation of the Greek world from the tyranny of Athens. |
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| Peloponnesian League members |
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| (Sparta, Argos, Corinth, Thebes) |
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| (401-371 BC) Sparta attempted to assume control of the member states of the Athenian Empire following the defeat of Athens in 404-401 BC. It secretly colluded with Persia to raise the money to defeat Athens at sea. It had agreed to give back Greek states of Ionia to Persia in exchange. |
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| Battle of Leuctra, 371 BC |
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| (Sparta vs. Corinth, Argos, Thebes, and Athens) |
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| (Battle of Mantinea, 362 BC) |
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| (Thebes vs. Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Argos) |
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| Second Athenian Naval Confederacy |
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| financial impossibilities of the confederacy, collapse of Athenian naval power. |
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| Emerging Trends of 4th Century BC |
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1.MERCENARIES
2.Individualism
3. Political Apathy
4. DECLINE IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POLIS |
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Xenophon, March of the 10000 (Anabasis) 401-399 BC
Evolving professionalism of hoplite tactics:
Oblique phalanx, Epaminondas and Pelopidas of Thebes, Battle of Leuctra 371 BC
Professional skirmishers – peltasts, slingers, archers; cavalry as an offensive weapon; Joint Force Manœuvres |
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| disengagement (disenchantment) of elite members of society from their respective Poleis. |
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Withdrawal from political life.
Example: Athenian liturgies – voluntary philanthropy, from wealthy individuals maintaining triremes during the 5th century BC to avoidance of such responsibilities during the 4th. |
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| DECLINE IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POLIS |
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| emerging elements of mercenaries, financiers and dignitaries who saw themselves as existing in a world that transcended the polis. |
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| Thebes' warriors, battle of Mantinea |
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| Philip II of Macedon during the late 300s |
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| Hostage in Thebes during the Battle of Leuctra |
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